I think the butterfly pea tincture is the only one I've had. There's a Vietnamese restaurant a couple of blocks from our house that serves very good food, but isn't particularly pretentious, so the apparent sophistication (and by this I mean that I'm not particularly sophisticated in such things and may be wrong) of their seasonal cocktails surprises me. Anyway, that's where I had the butterfly pea cocktail. It's actually the only coctail I've had there that was mildly disappointing, but it wasn't the butterfly pea ingredient that I didn't enjoy. I just found the drink to be a little weak and astringent, like maybe it had too much soda water. We took some out-of-town guests there last night and I had a cocktail that was so good that my friend ordered one for herself. It had cognac, Grand Marnier, blood orange liquer, orange juice, ginger marmalade, lemon juice, and orange bitters. My friend had just told me earlier in the day that she wanted to try a variation on a margarita that she'd heard about, where the traditional margarita is shaken with orange marmalade, so maybe marmalade is becoming popular as a cocktail ingredient? Maybe it's been popular for years. It's certainly less exotic that the ingredients in the article. As I said, I'm not particularly sophisticated in this area. In any case, the drink was really tasty!

Pope Bob has a nice ring to it. Although he spent many formative years in Peru, so maybe it should've been Pope Beto I.

I'm with you on that, P*D. I love beets!

I thought I might have written about this here (or at the old WTF) before, but I changed my migraine meds about two years ago, and one of the ones I now use is this one, ubrogepant, which I take as an acute medicine (i.e., as-needed), and the other one is atogepant, which I take every day. IIRC these meds are related (and of course their names are similar). These medicines changed my life. It was amazing. Both of them are very new, neither had been available for more than two years when I started them. And there are maybe two other new migraine meds that came out at the same as well, one is an injection. But they give people treatment options that were never available. And for people like me, they are much, much more effective and allow us to go off of meds that have nasty side effects. Now whenever I learn that someone has migraines, I always tell them to ask their doc about changing medicines. I joke that I should do one of those testimonial commercials.

A tiny TikTok creator company with no revenue and ties to China plans to buy $300million in Trump’s memecoin The firm, which employs eight people to create videos for TikTok, earned no revenue last year — yet somehow found a way to purchase as much as $300 million of $TRUMP. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tiktok-china-trump-memecoin-gd-culture-group-b2750838.html

I really enjoyed the video, cheers

My maternal great-grandfather died of black lung. This was before I was born, so I only knew his wife, my maternal great grandmother. I (foolishly) didn’t realize black lung was still occurring.

I'll donate a hundred copies of this [image: 1747116041035-screenshot_20250512-231640_duckduckgo-2.jpg]

Salt and Straw is local to me. Some of their flavors are way out there! I had a Thanksgiving stuffing and gravy ice cream from them. Weird, but pretty good.

I do like a good biscuit and particularly one served with sausage gravy. I wouldn't have supposed that it would be so hard to recreate what I think of as a simple food from ingredients available in Ireland. I do admire a lot of what Rhiannon Giddens has accomplished in her varied musican/historian endeavors. Big Al

Wow. it's very bittersweet to read that. What a gift he has given his students, and the world. Also it reminds me about how many great physicians and researchers there are in this country .... they need to keep their funding........

The wildflowers in the Columbia River Gorge are at least two weeks ahead of where they were last year. I went to the same place, and there was just a couple patches of bloomed out balsamroot left, unlike last year. [image: 1747007176709-img_1437.jpeg] [image: 1747007205837-img_1439.jpeg] Bitterroot is always pretty, too.

@AndyD said in He’s gone off the deep end: Is he at all serious? That's going to cost a bob or two I think this is part of his new reality show called The Potemkin Presidency. But he's still directing people to look at it, which is a waste of time and resources.

Happy Mother’s Day!!!